Skylar Alexander, 11, tosses a snowball at brother Parker Alexander, 14, outside their Jackson, Miss., home. The winter storm system left 2 to 4 inches of snow in parts of central Mississippi before heading east toward Alabama, the National Weather Service said. Rogelio V. Solis, AP

A University of Alabama student ties a houndstooth scarf around a snowman on the quad in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Hundreds of students gathered at the quad as the heavy snowfall coated Tuscaloosa. Robert Sutton, The Tuscaloosa News, via AP

Students walk to class across the Quad in the snow on the University of Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Michelle Lepianka Carter, Tuscaloosa News, via AP